virt January 2014

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Xen Security patching
by Chris Elliott 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Hi Guys When is the next update of Hypervisor packages going to be released? There appears to be no changes to the main hypervisor RPMs since September (Even in the BETA / RC1 tree) and there are 5+ Xen Security Advisories with patches which need to be added. "Security issues are handled and released in sync with public disclosure upstream with zero lag" I can rebuild my own, but that's not really the point. In other news I've been doing some testing of the 3.10 kernel and so far so good! Thanks - Chris

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Hey
by NightLightHosts Admin 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Just want to let you guys know that, although it may have been around for a bit, bringing Xen back to CentOS is awesome and I really appreciate it. I was very disappointed when RedHat dropped support as Xen is awesome. Thanks for the effort!

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Can't create new Xen domains using libvirt on CentOS 6.5
by Jens Pelzetter 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Hello, we have a strange problem on a fresh install of CentOS 6.5. On the server we want to use Xen to host paravirtualised guests (the system has no hardware virtualization support). To manage the domain we would like to use libvirt. Xen and libvirt are set up as described here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart/Xen4Libvirt When we try to create a new domain this does not work. In /var/log/xen/xend.log we have to the following error: [2014-01-28 10:23:02 1651] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:103) XendDomainInfo.create(['vm', ['name', 'ccm'], ['memory', '1024'], ['maxmem', '1024'], ['vcpus', '1'], ['uuid', 'be62b0d3-4911-137f-210f-9b0948828106'], ['bootloader', '/usr/bin/pygrub'], ['on_poweroff', 'destroy'], ['on_reboot', 'restart'], ['on_crash', 'restart'], ['image', ['linux', ['localtime', '0']]], ['localtime', '0'], ['device', ['vbd', ['dev', 'xvda'], ['uname', 'phy:/dev/medusa-vm/ccm'], ['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vif', ['mac', '00:16:3e:1c:ee:5b'], ['bridge', 'br0'], ['script', 'vif-bridge'], ['model', 'virtio']]]]) [2014-01-28 10:23:02 1651] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:2499) XendDomainInfo.constructDomain [2014-01-28 10:23:02 1651] DEBUG (balloon:187) Balloon: 26832188 KiB free; need 16384; done. [2014-01-28 10:23:02 1651] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:2561) (1, 'Operation not permitted') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 2556, in _constructDomain target = self.info.target()) Error: (1, 'Operation not permitted') [2014-01-28 10:23:02 1651] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:488) VM start failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 473, in start XendTask.log_progress(0, 30, self._constructDomain) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendTask.py", line 209, in log_progress retval = func(*args, **kwds) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 2567, in _constructDomain raise VmError(failmsg) VmError: Creating domain failed: name=ccm [2014-01-28 10:23:02 1651] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:108) Domain construction failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 106, in create vm.start() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 473, in start XendTask.log_progress(0, 30, self._constructDomain) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendTask.py", line 209, in log_progress retval = func(*args, **kwds) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 2567, in _constructDomain raise VmError(failmsg) VmError: Creating domain failed: name=ccm [2014-01-28 10:23:02 1651] ERROR (SrvBase:88) Request create failed. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/web/SrvBase.py", line 85, in perform return op_method(op, req) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDomainDir.py", line 82, in op_create raise XendError("Error creating domain: " + str(ex)) XendError: Error creating domain: Creating domain failed: name=ccm Any help is appreciated. Best regards, Jens Pelzetter

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Xen HVM Networking in 3.10
by Chris Elliott 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Is anyone running lots of Xen HVM guests on a 3.10 Dom0 kernel? We've had a few weird issues where PV guests are fine, but HVM guests are getting < 1Kb/s network throughput. The configuration on the host machine, VIF and inside the VM is fine. CPU and IO is fine too. It only seems to affect servers with Broadcom network chipsets. Rolling back to a 3.4 Dom0 kernel fixes the problem, so its either driver (bnx2?) related or something else. Not sure what to look at next to troubleshoot this as there are no errors anywhere, but if anyone has a test server with a brodcom NIC please can you test? We've had this on 3 production servers now, but I cant really do any more testing on those as they are full of active VMs. Thanks Chris

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Loading a FreeBSD 10 VM on QEMU-KVM..
by Howard Leadmon 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

I was trying to load a FreeBSD 10 VM on my CentOS 6.4 machine, and it keeps hanging and not completing the boot. I have FBSD 9.x VM's running just fine, but if I try and load 10.x it's a no go. Attaching to the console using VNC, I see: gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 00:04.0 C980 PCI2.10 PnP BBS PMM7FC0@20 C980 Booting from DVD/CD... CD Loader 1.2 Building the boot loader arguments Looking up the /BOOT/LOADER... Found Relocating the loader and the BTX That is it, at that point it just hangs. I have tried from 2G RAM to 6G RAM for the VM, and from 1 to 4 CPU's, but no effect. The FreeBSD lists said I should load a newer QEMU-KVM, that there are much newer releases but everything I have seen claims that is not a good idea, that RH does version numbering much differently. Has anyone run into this, or have any ideas on how to get past it, as I would love to load up the newest FBSD and give it a run as well.. --- Howard Leadmon

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DomU > 128GB
by Karanbir Singh 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi, Here is an interesting one - what can we do about this ? Great problem to have though, I just want a dom0 > 128G to start with :) - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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xen_balloon: reserve_additional_memory: add_memory() Errors
by Chris Elliott 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

Hi All Back in August there was a report of these errors popping up in dmesg, and as far as I can tell it's still unresolved even in the latest kernel. System RAM resource [mem 0xc8000000-0xcfffffff] cannot be added xen_balloon: reserve_additional_memory: add_memory() failed: -17 On this example its running 3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64 To replicate this just disable Dom0 memory ballooning in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp and these errors will over time completely fill up dmesg. This is because the amount of memory within these two sys files is different: /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/info/current_kb /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb We can manually edit to work around the problem and stop the error but its not ideal, I would help with making a patch but don't really know where to start! Thanks Chris

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6.5 live migration speed
by Ulrich Leodolter 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

hello, while upgrading a kvm virtualization cluster from c6.4 to c6.5 and i am no longer able to control the migration speed. in c6.4 the default speed was the maximum bandwidth (1g in my case) and the actual migration speed was about 100MB/s. now in c6.5 the actual migration speed dropped down to about 25MB/s - 50MB/s, it varies and sometimes during migration of huge machines (36GB) i was at 100MB/s, but only for seconds. i tried also to set speed using this command: virsh migrate-setspeed <domain> --bandwidth 1000 but it seems it has no affect, i remember in c6.3 the default migration speed was 33% of total bandwidth and at that time the above command worked and 100% were used during migration. can anyone confirm this ?? thanks ulrich

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Announcing a new HA KVM tutorial!
by Digimer 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Almost exactly two years ago, I released the first tutorial for building an HA platform for KVM VMs. In that time, I have learned a lot, created some tools to simplify management and refined the design to handle corner-cases seen in the field. Today, the culmination of that learning is summed up in the "2nd Edition" of that tutorial, now called "AN!Cluster Tutorial 2". https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!Cluster_Tutorial_2 These HA KVM platforms have been in production for over two years now in facilities all over the world; Universities, municipal governments, corporate DCs, manufacturing facilities, etc. I've gotten wonderful feedback from users and all that real-world experience has been integrated into this new tutorial. As always, everything is 100% open source and free-as-in-beer! The major changes are: * SELinux and iptables are enabled and used. * Numerous slight changes made to the OS and cluster stack configuration to provide better corner-case fault handling. * Architecture refinements; ** Redundant PSUs, UPSes and fence methods emphasized. ** Monitoring multiple UPSes added via modified apcupsd ** Detailed monitoring of LSI-based RAID controllers and drives ** Discussion on hardware considerations for VM performance based on anticipated work loads * Naming convention changes to support the new AN!CDB dashboard[1] ** New alert system covered with fault and notable event alerting * Wider array of guest OSes are covered; ** Windows 7 ** Windows 8 ** Windows 2008 R2 ** Windows 2012 ** Solaris 11 ** FreeBSD 9 ** RHEL 6 ** SLES 11 Beyond that, the formatting of the tutorial itself has been slightly modified. I do think it is the easiest to follow tutorial I have yet been able to produce. I am very proud of this one! :D As always, feedback is always very much appreciated. Everything from typos/grammar mistakes, functional problems or anything else is very valuable. I take all the feedback I get and use it to helping make the tutorials better. Enjoy! Digimer, who now can now start the next tutorial in earnest! 1. https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!CDB -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?

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Support new AWS c3 instance type
by JacobV 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

When I try to launch the centos 6.4 ami on the newly release c3 instance type i get Client.UnsupportedOperation: The instance configuration for this AWS Marketplace product is not supported. Please see http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp?sku=7w73f3vx0zywcfq1izrshkpjl for more information about supported instance types, regions, and operating systems. Do you just need to update the marketplace listing to support this or is there more build work and time required. Thank you, -jack

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